Tuesday, November 11 2008

Tuesday, 11/11, 7 pm, film “New Year Baby” about girl born on
Cambodian New Year in Thai refugee camp, but parents hid the story of the Khmer Rouge genocide

1701 Classroom Building, Room 25, East Bank Campus U of M, Mpls.

http://www.chgs.umn.edu/news/

Garrison Keillor reads his work at the Minneapolis Central Library. For information, click here.

10/4 to 11/11 (Tuesdays 7 to 9 pm or Saturdays 10 to noon), Conflict Competency for Everyday Life with Transformative Mediator and peace educator Carey Heart Borne, in South Mpls. $60 to 120 sliding scale.

Call 612-721-6787 to register or with questions.

The Books and Bars book club discusses Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union at the Bryant-Lake Bowl.

Tuesday, 11/11, 10:30 am, Armistice Day bell ringing service at the
First Shot Memorial just west of the Veterans Service Building on the MN State Capitol Approach, St Paul.

Contact Wayne Wittman, 651-774-4008.

Goodwill has 13 stores metro-wide and they need your help! Proceeds from all stores go to assisting people with barriers to education and employment.

Assist with store production and merchandising by sorting products, helping customers, organizing books and toys and hanging clothes for displays.

Volunteer as an individual or with friends and family! Visit our website, www.handsontwincities.org, to sign up for the project or contact me at jessica@handsontwincities.org.

Tuesday, December 11th 9:00-11:00 am *This project occurs the second Tuesday of every month.

Can you even imagine how much free time you’ll have when the election is over??!! And how much work there is to do?! Hands On Twin Cities is here to help.

Tell us how many hours per week you volunteer for or worry about the election, and the issue you care most about. We’ll find you the perfect volunteer opportunity.

This Volunteer Café is chance to meet with Hands On Twin Cities staff to explore volunteering, and find the perfect volunteer position for you.

11/11 to 11/12, conference “The Road to Reconciliation” in St Paul and Oakdale, concerned with bridging misunderstandings and healing trauma when conflicts turn violent

Contact Deacon Mickey Friesen at 651-291-4445.

An exhibit of Polaroid photography by Sean Tubridy. Click here for details.

A retrospective exhibit celebrating 15 years of Kulture Klub Collaborative, a non-profit pairing artists with homeless youth. Click here for details, and here to read Sheila Regan’s feature on the exhibit.

Artist Greg Lindquist will unveil a painting of the 35W bridge rebuilding when his exhibit “Remembrance of Things Present” opens at Bethel University’s 9th Street Entry Gallery on November 7. Details of the event are below.

Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls Wicked “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster,” and when it first played Minneapolis in 2006 it broke box office records and sold out in record time. Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for “the most complete, and completely satisfying, new musical in a long time” (USA Today).

Explore the traditions associated with Saint Lucia, from her origins as a fourth-century martyr to the legends of her appearance in Sweden.

There are many legends associated with Lucia starting in fourth century Sicily. A young woman gave her dowry away to the poor and confessed herself a Christian. For this she was accused of witchcraft and put to death. Another legend tells of a famine in medieval days. A glowing figure dressed in white, Saint Lucia came across a great lake in the province of Värmland, Sweden.
She brought gifts of food to the starving people.

Class Title: Body + Identity: An Exploration
Dates: Tuesdays, Oct. 28, Nov. 4, 11, 18
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Intermedia Arts
Instructor: Jila Nikpay
Fee: Based on a household-income based sliding-fee scale

This fall, look at yourself with new eyes in Body + Identity, a creative and cross-cultural approach to examining our perceptions of ourselves as women. Led by renowned photographer Jila Nikpay, this class will open our eyes to the ways in which we view our bodies, our selves, and the women around us.

series of 5 Monday evenings titled “My Truth and Your Truth: Absolutes and Openness in Our Religious Traditions”
in 5 different houses of worship, beginning with Dr Anant Rambachan (Hindu) at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church

http://www.spacc.org/spin or or 651-789-3840 or register
at http://www.interfaithings.org

A major exhibit of contemporary art from India, at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

“Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World” is a national campaign and travelling photo exhibit that raises awareness about plants and animals threatened by global warming. Featuring work by award-winning wildlife conservation photographers, the 40-print exhibit brings the public face-to-face with the wildlife most threatened by climate. Included in the exhibit are species that Earthjustice, the nation’s leading public interest environmental law organization, are fighting to protect from global warming.

Bethel University’s Olson Gallery pleased to present new works by Bethel University Associate Professor of Art Jeff Wetzig.

Jeff Wetzig’s collection of prints transform their traditional roots in Japanese woodblock prints to explore the medium as a means of installation. He investigates the idea of boundaries and borders as they relate to themes such as mass communication, repetition, and fear. The delicate nature of line and color in his woodblock prints are an interesting contrast to their subject matter.